Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia -- Part 1 India -- 1 Cinema, Citizenship, and the Illegal City -- 2 Bombay Bhai: The Gangster in and behind Popular Hindi Cinema -- 3 Sex in the Transnational City: Discourses of Gender, Body, and Nation in the "New Bollywood" -- 4 Islamic "Terrorism" and Visions of Justice in Khalid Mohamed's Fiza -- Part 2 Southeast Asia -- 5 The Poverty of Justice: Postcolonial Condition and Representations of Justice in Contemporary Philippine Cinema -- 6 Shadowboxing with the Censors: A Vietnamese Woman Directs the War Story -- Part 3 Northeast Asia -- 7 Oshima Nagisa's Ai no korida Reconsidered: Law, Gender, and Sexually Explicit Film in Japanese Cinema -- 8 Freedom of Thought and National Security Law in Recent South Korean Cinema: The Road Taken (Seontaek) and Its Genre -- Part 4 China -- 9 Did Qiu Ju Get Good Legal Advice? -- 10 Blood in the Bathroom: Shanghai Triad as Gangster Noir -- 11 Chinese Lawyers on the Silver Screen -- 12 Playing with Intertextuality and Contextuality: Film Piracy On and Off the Chinese Screen -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.